District Attorney Jan Scully announced today
the arrests of Cortez Le
don Quinn (age 46) and
Andre Antoine Pearson (age 36).
Cortez Quinn is a member of
the Twin Rivers Unified School
District (TRUSD) Board of
Trustees, a position he has held
since 2007.

While on the board, he developed a personal
relationship with a female school
employee. From December 2010
through April 2011, she gave
Quinn gifts totaling $4,000, and
loans totaling over $50,000. St
ate law makes it illegal for a
school board member to receive loans from an employee of the district. Quinn was also required
to report these financial
transactions in his statement of economic interest (California FPPC Form
700), but failed to do so.

Quinn is charged with
four felony counts of perjury, four felony counts
of filing false documents, and five misdemeanor counts related to improper
receipt of the loans
and gifts.
The relationship with the same employee also resulted in her pregnancy and the birth of a son in
December 2011. The employee filed a paternity action, and the court ordered Quinn to submit to
DNA testing.

Quinn went to Comprehensive Medical, Inc., where laboratory technician Andre
Pearson was employed to collect DNA samples. It
is alleged Quinn and Pearson submitted a false
DNA sample under Quinn’s name re
sulting in a paternity test fraudulently showing
Quinn was not
the father. Quinn used that test result in court to deny paternity. Quinn and Pearson are both
charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and conceal
evidence, and prepar
ing false evidence for
a court proceeding. Quinn is also charged with
offering fraudulently alte
red evidence in a court
proceeding, and perjury.

All are felonies.
Quinn faces a maximum of 12 years imprisonment
on the felony offenses,
and an additional six
months in the county jail for each misdemeanor
. Pearson faces a maximum of three years
imprisonment for the felony offenses.